The main card of UFC Fight Night 25, an event heavily promoted by UFC sponsor Bud Light, airs on Spike TV. As MMAjunkie.com recently reported, the event is expected to take place at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

Brookins, a onetime WEC featherweight who moved up to lightweight for “TUF 12,” hasn’t fought since the show’s live finale in December, when he defeated Michael Johnson for the season’s championship. He’s now won four straight fights since his WEC 36 loss to Jose Aldo, who went on to win the WEC/UFC featherweight title.

Brookins had been scheduled for returns at UFC 129 (against John Makdessi) and the recent TUF 13 Finale event (against Jeremy Stephens), but a broken orbital halted those plans. Brookins said it wasn’t anything especially serious but that it affected “the bottom floor of my eye and caught up some nerves and stuff.” He was able to do most of his training, but the injury would “tease” him and make itself known at sporadic times.

Now healed, he meets the equally fast-rising Koch, who looks for his third consecutive “Knockout of the Night” award. One of Duke Roufus’ blue-chip prospects, the Iowan went 3-1 in the WEC and suffered his lone defeat to now-No. 1 contender Chad Mendes. Earlier this year in his UFC debut, he scored a vicious first-round knockout of Raphael Assuncao at UFC 128 for his third straight win.